NU 545 Unit 2 Study Guide

1. Review the anatomy of the brain. Which portion is responsible for CH.15
keeping you awake, controlling thought, speech, emotions and
behavior, maintaining balance and posture?
2. Know the function of the arachnoid villi. CH.15
3. Where is the primary defect in Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s? CH.17
4. What is the function of the CSF? Where is it produced? Where is it
absorbed? CH.15
5. Review blood flow to the brain. CH.15
6. What is the gate control theory of pain? CH.16
7. Know the type of nerve fibers that transmit pain impulses. CH.16
8. Where in the CNS does pain perception occur? CH.16
9. Know different clinical descriptions of pain (acute, chronic,
neuropathic); pain threshold/tolerance CH.16
10. Know endogenous opioids. CH.16
11. What are the two types of fibers that transmit the nerve action
potentials generated by excitation of any of the nociceptors. CH.16
12. What is the relationship between epinephrine and body temperature? CH.16
13.Know mechanisms of heat production and heat loss. CH.16
14.Know heat exhaustion and heat stroke? CH.16
15.Define the different stages of sleep. CH.16
16. Discuss disorders of the conjunctiva of the eye. CH.16
17. Which part of the brain controls movement of the eye? CH. 15
18. Know which part of the brain controls pupillary changes. CH.17
19. Characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease. CH.17
B 20. What part of the brain must be functioning for cognitive operations? CH.17
B 19.Discuss the types of mid-brain dysfunction and its physical symptoms. CH.17
20.Know the best prognostic indicator of recovery of consciousness and
functional outcome after a brain event. CH.17
21. Know vomiting with which CNS injuries. CH.17
22. Know patterns of breathing with head injuries. CH.17
23. Define seizure and status epilepticus. What is the medical
significance? Know benign febrile seizures. CH. 17
B 24. Know the characteristics of closed head injury. CH.18
24.Define dyskinesia. Types? Characteristics? CH. 17
25. Know the stages of intracranial hypertension. CH.17
26. Know normal intracranial pressure. How does body compensate for
increased ICP? CH.17
27. Know the most critical index of nervous system dysfunction/function. CH.17
28.What is responsible for the tremors associated with Parkinsons
Disease? CH.17
29. Define concussion. Know the different grades of concussion. CH.18
30. Know coupe and countercoup brain injuries and how they happen. CH.18
31.Know most common primary CNS tumor. CH.18
32. What happens to a patient after an acute spinal cord injury? Why is it life
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threatening? Describe the clinical manifestations. Why would their
temperature fluctuate? CH.17
33. Know diagnostic criteria for vegetative state and brain death. 34.Define
and discuss the different types of stroke, which affected artery CH. 18
causes what data processing deficits (agnosia, dysphasia, etc).
35.Know all types of cerebral edema and what causes each type. CH. 17
36.Know characteristics of AV malformation. CH. 18
37. Define and describe the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and
etiology of Multiple Sclerosis. CH.18
38. Define and describe the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and
etiology of Guillian Barre Syndrome. CH.18
39. Define and describe the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and
etiology of Mysthenia Gravis CH.18
40. Define and describe the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and
etiology of Parkinsons disease. CH. 17
41. Define and describe the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and
etiology of Huntington disease. CH.17
42. Know types of tumors and its site of development/origination. CH. 18
43. Know clinical manifestations and presenting signs of Creutzfeldt-Jacob,
meningitis, and brain abscess. CH.17 and CH.18
44. What is schizophrenia? What part of the brain is associated with the
S/S of this disorder? CH.19
45. Define depression and its types; know etiology and link to cortisol. Text
46. Know side effects of MAOIs. CH.19
47. How Does ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) treat depression? 46.Define B
generalized anxiety disorder. What is the underlying defect? CH.19
Know characteristics. CH.19
47. Define panic disorder. What are the complications? CH.19
48. Define encephalocele, meningocele, spina bifida, myelomeningocele.
Where is the defect located in each? CH. 20
49. Know when the neural tube forms during embryonic development. CH.20
50.Know pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and etiology of
cerebral palsy. CH. 20
51. Know pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and etiology of PKU. CH. 20
52.What nerves are capable of regeneration? CH.15